Monday October 2 Daily Links

Published by Interrobang Staff at October 2, 2023

MONDAY 10.2

NEWS STORIES

Its Beginning to Look a Lot Like Flipmas

A legal expert says a lot of clues are pointing to plenty of people flipping on Trump, including his daughter Ivanka. “This is a unique turn of events, and as a general matter, we know experienced prosecutors do not bring people to be witnesses only for the purposes of having them take the 5th. The fact that she was originally a defendant and is now being called as a witness—that usually indicates some form of cooperation.”

Once the dam breaks the water will get pretty high.

Matt Gaetz Wants McCarthy Out

“I do intend to file a motion to vacate against Speaker McCarthy this week. I think we need to rip off the band-aid. I think we need to move on with new leadership that can be trustworthy. The one thing everybody has in common is no one trusts McCarthy,” Gaetz said.

Then fucking do it .

House GOP Wants Gaetz Out

Some Republicans are champing at the bit to expel the congressman if the House Ethics Committee investigating him finds wrongdoing, Fox News reported Sunday.

Wouldn’t it be great if they were both gone?

Congressman Pulled Fire Alarm at Capitol

US Rep Bowman is under investigation.

He’s going to get kicked off the debate team.

Military Recruitment Not Going So Well

Army ranks are down because recruitment is low. Experts blame a strong economy and the time during Covid when recruiters couldn’t comb high schools for suckers.

This sounds like a job for Private Benjamin

Workplace Suicides on the Rise

Greg Beckett seemed like his life was going great, until he killed himself in his workplace.

Mental health ends at work.

SPORTS

Buck Showalter Leaving Mets

After two years a manager of the New York Mets Buck Showalter is moving on in a forced resignation.

Really? Why?

Marcus Spears on Trent Dilfer Sideline Meltdown

Spears reacted to Dilfers ragey meltdown saying Trent needs a good ass whoopin.

All Trent knows about football is he could never really play it.

Tim Wakefield Died

The former Red Sox star has died at the age 57 days after Curt Schilling outted him for going through a private struggle with cancer.

Its so sad and even sadder that his final days were spent being mad at Kurt Schilling.

Ayahuasca Shout Out on Andys Room

The Disney Plus broadcast of an NFL game on Saturday was amazing eye and ear candy and one of the most viral (and funniest) moments came when Booger McFarland mentioned Aaron Rodgers and ayahuasca on a Disney +_ kids broadcast.

It’s better that the kids learn about it from football than on the streets.

CELEBS & ENTERTAINMENT

Kayfabe Gets In the Dictionary

The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has added the wrestling term, Kayfabe to their official listings. Described as “The tacit agreement between professional wrestlers and their fans to pretend that overtly staged wrestling events, stories, characters, etc., are genuine.”

Kayfabe getting into the dictionary kill kayfabe.

Beyonce Following Taylor Swift Into AMC Concert Film Space

Queen Bey is next in line for a documentary film that captures her “Renaissance” world tour — and that a joint announcement is imminent with AMC

And we thought movies were dead.

Someones Calling It: Peak TV is Done

The WSJ is saying prepare yourself for an entirely different Hollywood model in the coming years, and peak TV that we’ve been experiencing of late will not be a part of it.

Peak TV is a myth. There was one good show a year.

Farrelly Bros Comment on Problematic Jizz Scene

“It was a special time because we didn’t know what we were doing,” admits Bobby, taking us back to the mid-’90s. “We didn’t go to film school and we weren’t making a movie where studio execs would say, ‘Yeah, that’s what you do.’ They were thinking, ‘What are you doing? Why would you do that?’ And we were like, ‘Because it makes us laugh and when we showed it to people, it made them laugh too.’ We were making it for audiences and not studio executives.”

Problematic how? Did they use real jizz?

TRENDING & VIRAL

Retired Couple Books 51 Cruises

An Australian couple says booking 500 days of cruises is cheaper than paying for the same time in a retirement home, so that’s what they did.

Why didn’t you just join the navy

STUDIES, SURVEYS, RANKINGS

Scientists Looking at Mysterious Circles

Using artificial intelligence, researchers have discovered mysterious “fairy circles” in hundreds of locations across the globe.

I call them earth pock mocks .